When the Lights Go Down. The story of cinemas of a Midlands town
Details:
- Author(s) Thornton, Maurice
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2014
- Pages 196pp; illus
- Publisher Melrose Books
- Place Published Ely
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Popular account of cinemas in Kettering - taken to be a representative Midlands town - charting their rise and decline over a century - 'describes the entrepreneurs, showmen, and operators of the town’s five cinemas and other buildings where films were exhibited. How the cinemas coped with the developments in cinema and how they changed, the periods of war, how the talkies came and the cinemas grasped it – and those who held out'